Senior Platform Engineer

Box Box · Enterprise · Warsaw, Poland · Experiences

Senior Platform Engineer at Box, a company focused on Intelligent Content Management and enterprise AI. The role involves building and improving tooling and frameworks for mobile, desktop, and web product development, with a focus on CI/CD, release pipelines, and developer productivity. This is a software-engineering-first role requiring proficiency in modern programming languages and software design principles. The engineer will leverage AI-assisted tooling pragmatically to eliminate toil and improve outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to build, maintain, and improve tooling and frameworks supporting mobile, desktop, and web product development, with a near-term focus on mobile.
  2. You’ll create and maintain in-house tools that automate repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency.
  3. You'll work with diverse systems - from CI pipelines and code-signing to release, deployment, crash metric ingestion, and automation frameworks-to solve key team productivity issues.
  4. You'll dig deep and investigate the pain-points in our development processes and systems. Then we'll fix them!
  5. You'll lead and participate in design, planning, and architecture discussions.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of software development or DevOps/platform engineering experience
  • Proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Python, C#, Swift, Ruby, TypeScript, Go)
  • Knowledge of software design principles
  • Practical experience managing jobs and pipelines with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bitrise or GitHub Actions
  • Practical experience with virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Parallels) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes) for build infrastructure
  • Practical experience with build tooling in mobile ecosystems (Fastlane, Gradle, Xcode command-line tools)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Strong design and analytical skills
  • Curious, open, and pragmatic, leveraging new tools (including AI) where they meaningfully improve outcomes
  • Familiar with modern unit-testing and functional-testing frameworks and methodologies across mobile and/or web platforms
  • History of collaboration and success in small, high-velocity agile teams
  • Enjoy building tools and frameworks for other engineers
  • Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
  • Assess, communicate, and complete project milestones with your manager and team members in a time-sensitive manner

Nice to have

  • Experience with build tooling in web ecosystems (webpack, Vite, npm, Yarn)
  • Experience with mobile code signing, provisioning profiles, App Store Connect, or Google Play Console
  • Experience with web build and deployment pipelines and cloud hosting environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with mobile device farms or cloud testing platforms (e.g. Firebase Test Lab, BrowserStack)
  • Experience with Unix/Linux system administration and troubleshooting
  • Experience with React Native build pipelines, Metro bundler, and cross-platform release workflows
  • Experience with browser-based testing frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress) or mobile UI automation frameworks (e.g. XCTest, Espresso, Detox)
  • Familiarity with observability and crash/performance monitoring tooling (e.g. Datadog, Crashlytics, New Relic)
  • Experience with Node.js

What the JD emphasized

  • software-engineering-first role
  • proficient in modern programming languages
  • knowledge of software design principles
  • AI-assisted tooling pragmatically